The office of the Ukrainian president has written an appeal to the UN and EU for international peacekeepers. At the same time, President Poroshenko unveiled his plans to increase the size of the military. …read more Source: Deutsche...

The international community should pay special attention to media freedom in Ukraine, while the OSCE has a biased attitude about it, Sergei Lavrov has said.”We are faced with an organized attack on freedom of speech and an attempt to ban the profession of journalism,” the Russian foreign minister stated addressing the 28th session of...

Balkan countries should decide in the next few months on how to get their gas once the agreement on transport of Russian gas via Ukraine expires in four years.This is what Russian Ambassador Aleksandr Chepurin told a conference in Belgrade on Monday. …read more Source:...

Ukrainian model Anna Duritskaya, who was with opposition politician when he was shot dead, complains of being kept under guard in Moscow The chief witness to the murder of Russian protest leader Boris Nemtsov, a Ukrainian model who was with him when he was shot dead, has complained of being kept under guard in Moscow.Anna Duritskaya, 23, said she...

Polish Foreign Minister Grzegorz Schetyna arrived in Kiev on a one-day visit with his Danish counterpart, Martin Lidegaard to show solidarity with Ukraine’s pro-European course. …read more Source: Polskie Radio dla...

US Secretary of State John Kerry met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Geneva on Monday, warning Moscow it could face more economic sanctions if pro-Russian forces in eastern Ukraine failed to comply with a ceasefire. …read more Source: France...

US State Secretary John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met in Geneva on Monday, as the UN Human Rights released its latest report on the death toll in Ukraine. According to the report, the number of people killed in eastern Ukraine since April 2014 surpassed the 6000 mark, despite the successive ceasefire agreements. The two...

Bulgaria regrets Moscow’s decision to stop work on the South Stream gas pipeline, according to Bulgaria’s Ambassador to Russia Boyko Kotsev. Stressing Bulgaria’s reliability as a participant in the gas pipeline project, Kotsev, as cited by the Bulgarian Telegraph Agency, informs that the Bulgarian companies involved in the...